In article “Cordaro and Munchak found guilty”, the Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader reports: “A federal jury found Lackawanna County Commissioner A.J. Munchak and former Commissioner Robert C. Cordaro guilty of taking and extorting bribes Tuesday, ending perhaps the most sensational corruption trial in county history and capping a tumultuous era in its politics.
“’The jury verdict showed that a public office is not similar to an ATM machine to generate secret cash payments or an entitlement to pay for pleasure trips or a license to steal, hide or simply misrepresent relationships that conflict with a public official’s duties,’ Mr. Smith said.”
In Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, commissioners lie and steal (as well as judges) and are sent to prison. In Lancaster commissioners jeopardize their careers to tell the truth and avoid wasteful spending, and they are subject to a grand jury witch trial and are hounded out of office by the self serving newspapers.
Which is worse?
